Red Affairs by Bibhu Prasad Routray
Bibhu Prasad Routray
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  • Chhattisgarh Massacre: Responding to Battlefield Setbacks
    Bibhu Prasad Routray   ·    13 Apr, 2021   ·    5761
    Within a span of less than two weeks, 28 security force (SF) personnel were killed in Chhattisgarh by left-wing extremists from the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist).  The first attack, on 23 March 2021, involving imp ...
  • COVID-19 and its ‘Low’ Impact on the LWE Movement
    Bibhu Prasad Routray   ·    22 Jun, 2020   ·    5697
    As the COVID-19 pandemic wreaks widespread socio-economic disruption across India, what could be its impact on the Left-Wing Extremism (LWE-affected) theatres? Would the pandemic affect the fighting potential of the extremists? Would it ...
  • Maoist Attack in Chhattisgarh: The Devil is in the Details
    Bibhu Prasad Routray   ·    31 Mar, 2020   ·    5671
    In the evening of 22 March, 17 security personnel were killed in an attack carried out by the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) in Chhattisgarh’s Sukma district. 14 more personnel were injured, two of them, critically. In th ...
  • Debates within the Counter-LWE Policy
    Bibhu Prasad Routray   ·    28 Oct, 2019   ·    5627
    On 14 October, India’s National Security Advisor, Ajit Doval, speaking at the inaugural session of the National Conference of Chiefs of Anti-Terror Squads/Special Task Force organised by the National Investigation Agency (NIA), seemed ...
  • It’s Still a Stalemate in the LWE Hotbed
    Bibhu Prasad Routray   ·    18 Sep, 2019   ·    5622
    Weakened insurgencies tend to negotiate. Such decision may be a tactic to buy time, defer defeat, protect their leaders and cadres, or simply to salvage whatever little is possible in a war that these armed movements have no hope of winn ...
  • Researching the Unresearched: Left-Wing Extremism and the Future Rules of Governance
    Bibhu Prasad Routray   ·    19 Aug, 2019   ·    5612
    In the last week of July 2019, a brother and sister pair, in a representation of the two principal adversaries in India’s left-wing extremism (LWE)-affected heartland, came face-to-face. In Chhattisgarh’s Sukma district, Vetti Rama, ...
  • Reviving Jagargunda in Chhattisgarh's Security and Governance Vacuum
    Bibhu Prasad Routray   ·    11 Jul, 2019   ·    5597
    In June 2019, 13 years after it was demolished by Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadres using IEDs, a school in Jagargunda in Chhattisgarh’s Sukma district has reopened. Apart from being a centre of learning for tribal ch ...
  • Is ‘Human Rights’ Making a Comeback to Chhattisgarh’s Counter-Naxal Doctrine?
    Bibhu Prasad Routray   ·    22 Mar, 2019   ·    5569
    Regime changes often are harbingers of major policy shifts. The Congress party which ended the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) 15-year rule in Chhattisgarh state in the elections to the legislative assembly held in November 2018 has the ...
  • Governance Promises and its Antithesis: A Case Study of Junglemahal
    Bibhu Prasad Routray   ·    25 Jun, 2018   ·    5485
    The catchphrase, ...
  • Counter-LWE Security Operations: Season of Success?
    Bibhu Prasad Routray   ·    15 May, 2018   ·    5468
    On the surface, the months of April and May 2018 appear to have brought about a season of ‘success’ for the security forces. Pursuing a hardline approach, the security forces, across Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, Odisha, and Jharkhand h ...
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